We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

We all have done something unethical.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.